Invitation to World Literature

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The passionate loves and longings, hopes and fears of every culture live on forever in their stories. Here is your invitation to literature from around the world and across time.

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Sumerian, 2600 BCE and older
Turkish, by Orhan Pamuk, 2000
Greek, by Homer, ca. eighth century BCE
Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE
Sanskrit, first century CE
Japanese, by Murasaki Shikibu, ca. 1014
Chinese, by Wu Ch'êng-ên, ca. 1580
Quiché-Mayan, written in the Roman alphabet ca. 1550s
French, by Voltaire, 1759
English, by Chinua Achebe, 1959
Spanish, by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
English, by Arundhati Roy, 1998
Arabic, first collected ca. fourteenth century